Orion, Flame, and Horse Head Nebula703 viewsOrion, Flame, and House Head Nebula (M 42 NGC 1976)
March 10, 2011 at Mountain Top
Full spectrum T1i with and Astronomik CLS-CCD filter
Canon 70-300MM lens set at ~ 90MM (no light guard)
15 images; 250 seconds; 1600 iso; EQ-G Altas mount
Stacked with Deep Sky Stacker 3
Digitally developed with Nebulosity 2
First light image on the Atlas and with the lens.
Full size image available upon request

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Dark Angel102 viewsThis image is IC1318 or the Butterfly Nebula, was taken in September 2014 at Cherry Springs, Two years later on a rainy night at Cherry Springs it was finally processed. This is the result of 29 6-minute exposures with my full spectrum T1i and ED127 scope. It was stacked with Nebulosity 4 and process with Star Tools and a small tweak in Photoshop,

Triangulum145 viewsThis image of M33 or the Triangulum Galaxy. It was shot on September 16, 2012 at Cherry Springs State Park with full spectrum Canon T1i on a Celestron GP-C102. It consists of 38 4-minute exposures. I stacked with DSS, initially stretched the sub-frames with Nebulosity 2, and finished up with Photoshop.

Hatteras NC172 views

Running Man over Orion44 viewsThis image of M42 or the Orion Nebula. It was shot on February 26, 2012 in Mountain Top Pennsylvania with a full spectrum Canon T1i on a Orion Short Tube 80. It consists of 30 1-minute exposures. I stacked and initially stretched the sub-frames with Nebulosity 2, and finished up with Photoshop.

The Butterfly199 viewsTaken on Feb 6, 2016 in my New Bremen driveway. It was first light with my ES 0.7X flattener/reducer. It is M42, the Great Orion Nebula. This image is the result of 65 60-second, 43 30-second, and 33 10-second exposures all at ISO800. I processed the 10 and 60 second exposures twice with different levels of stretching resulting in 5 different exposures to HDR combine. I stacked in Nebulosity 3, developed in StarTools, then used Photoshop to combine all 5 exposures and make some final adjustments.

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Pelican58 viewsThis image of IC5070, the Pelican Nebula, was taken at Cherry Springs on September 28, 2014. It consists of 36 6-minute exposures at ISO 1600. It was stacked in Nebulosity and processed in Star Tools and Photoshop. I just got around to processing it this month. That is good since it has been cloudy for months.Jan 25, 2017

My first moon shot71 viewsThis shot was taken November 6, 2016 from my driveway in New Bremen. This is my first successful picture of the moon. It consists of 50 still frames at 1/1000 second at ISO 400. I used Sequence Generator Pro to focus the telescope on a star field prior to the shots. I staked the images in Nebulosity and did some minor processing with Star Tools and Photo shop.Nov 21, 2016

Andromeda89 viewsThe image was taken November 11, 2016 in my driveway in New Bremen Ohio. The image consists of 64 2-minute images taken at ISO 800. While it is my best M31 image to date I need to revisit this object because I know I can do better. The was stacked with Nebulosity 4, processed with Star Tools and Photoshop.Nov 20, 2016

Eastern Veil76 viewsThis image of the Eastern Veil, NGC 6992, was the last image I captured at Cherry Springs State Park in September 2016. This represents the best 23 5-minute exposures of a problematic night. There were 16 other images that were too bad to include. The system hopped guide stars several times resulting in a substantial crop to get the area covered by every one of the 23 good exposures. Even my copy of Star Tools needed to be updated to deal with the image. The images were taken with Sequence Generator Pro, stacked with Nebulosity 4, processed with Star Tools 1.4 and finished up with PhotoShop CS6. I tried a new method to remove the stars while processing in PS CS6 and I like the results.Oct 12, 2016

Double Up76 viewsI don't generally take pictures of Open Clusters unless there is nebulosity in the area, but a forecast of high clouds all night got the famous Double Cluster (NGC869 and NGC884) in the spotlight. This image was captured the night of September 1, 2016 at Cherry Springs. This images is made up of 16 150-second exposures and 20 300-second exposures all at ISO-800. They were stacked with Nebulosity 4 and processed with StarTools and Photoshop.Sep 11, 2016

Pickering's Triangle70 viewsThis is my first 2016 photo from Cherry Springs. It was taken August 29th and is made of the best 40 5-minute exposures from a set of 63 exposures using my Ti1 and ED127 scope. It was processed on the following rainy days with Nebulosity 4, Star Tools, and Photoshop. Sep 01, 2016

Fish Head Swimming Up Stream70 viewsThis is another 2014 image that took 2 years to be processed. It was taken in September of 2014 at Cherry Springs with a full spectrum T1i and an ED127 scope. It was made of 46 6-minute exposures that were stacked in Nebulosity 4 and processed in Star Tools. Aug 28, 2016

Dark Angel102 viewsThis image is IC1318 or the Butterfly Nebula, was taken in September 2014 at Cherry Springs, Two years later on a rainy night at Cherry Springs it was finally processed. This is the result of 29 6-minute exposures with my full spectrum T1i and ED127 scope. It was stacked with Nebulosity 4 and process with Star Tools and a small tweak in Photoshop,Aug 28, 2016